Is it possible to use material design themes for versions below Android 5.0? According to this link, it is not the case:
Material design is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices. Android now includes support for material design apps. To use material design in your Android apps, follow the guidelines defined in the material design specification and use the new components and functionality available in Android 5.0 (API level 21) and above.
Material design is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices. To use material design in your Android apps, follow the guidelines defined in the material design specification and use the new components and styles available in the material design support library.
Material Design is an Android-oriented design language created by Google, supporting onscreen touch experiences via cue-rich features and natural motions that mimic real-world objects. Designers optimize users' experience with 3D effects, realistic lighting and animation features in immersive, platform-consistent GUIs.
Google maintains Material Design and keeps extensive documentation for how to use and implement it. This kind of support and documentation can be lacking for many modern design systems.
You can use the support library to have some of features in older versions as well as mentioned in below link:-
https://developer.android.com/training/material/compatibility.html
also as mentioned below you can visit this link as well:-
http://android-developers.blogspot.in/2014/10/appcompat-v21-material-design-for-pre.html
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